The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 27
That which gave them yet more uneasiness was, that the youngest was of a very puny constitution, and scarce ever spake a word, which made them take that for stupidity which was a sign of good sense.
Who acts: That, more uneasiness, scarce, word, makers, stupidity · What happens: give, be, speak, make, take · To what, where: makers, word, that, sign · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, more uneasiness, scarce, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 uneasiness | amod |
| 7 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 constitution | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 constitution | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 constitution | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 constitution | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youngest | det |
| 12 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 constitution | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 constitution | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 constitution | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 constitution | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 puny | advmod |
| 17 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 constitution | amod |
| 18 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spake | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spake | cc |
| 21 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spake | nsubj |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 spake | advmod |
| 23 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 word | det |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spake | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 word | acl:relcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | xcomp |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 stupidity | case |
| 33 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 sign | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sign | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 sign | det |
| 37 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stupidity | acl:relcl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sense | case |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sense | amod |
| 40 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sign | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | That | makers = maker | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | more uneasiness | of a puny constitution | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | scarce | a word | ever | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past | a word | makers = maker | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | makers = maker not said here | that | for stupidity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for stupidity=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | is a | past | stupidity | a sign | of good sense | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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